This point kind of caught me by surprise, but here I am--at the halfway mark to the challenge I started back in September. I thought I would do a little recap, going over some random facts about my journey.
To remind everyone, this was the first half of my list:
A : Inferno by Dante Alighieri
B : Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
C : The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
D : A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
E : Parzival by Wolfrag von Eschenbach
F : The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
G : Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
H : Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
I : The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving
J : Dubliners by James Joyce
K : On the Road by Jack Kerouac
L : Passing by Nella Larsen
M : Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Started on : September 3, 2009
- Ended [M] on : April 14, 2010
- Total Weeks : 25.5*
- Total Pages : 5189 (4517 Quality Paper, 672 Mass Market)
- Longest : [H] Les Miserables, Victor Hugo (1200 pages)
- Shortest : [L] Passing, Nella Larsen (160 pages)
- Favorites : [D] Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens ; [H] Les Miserables, Victor Hugo ; [K] On the Road, Jack Kerouac
- Least Favorites : [E] Parzival, Wolfrag von Eschenbach ; [M] Moby Dick, Herman Melville
- Most Surprising : [A] Inferno, Dante Alighieri ; [H] Les Miserables, Victor Hugo ; [G] Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- What I would Change:
[B] Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs --> Don Juan, Lord Byron
[E] Parzival, Wolfrag von Eschenbach
[J] Dubliners, James Joyce --> Non short story novel, James Joyce
* Time spent reading classics, excluding personal reading
Right now, I can only say I'm more than ever to get going on the second half of this challenge. I'm already thinking about what I want to read once I'm done with all this.
I've learned a lot so far, and this is a great thing.
Next up: the Hitopadesa, Narayana
